Queensland, Australia News

Australia will boost the value of agriculture and food-related exports 45 percent by 2025 to meet demand from China , the government said in a plan released today.

ELIZABETH JACKSON: Australian Muslims are being urged to be alert to the possibility of a local backlash after the deadly terrorist attack in London this week.

The area is home to Queensland koalas, wombats, Parma wallabies and 23 species of Australian birds, including the kookaburra, bowerbird, palm cockatoos and Gouldian finches.

Australia's Noosa Food and Wine Festival is the global culinary mecca for top-rated chefs as well as movers and shakers of the food industry, Debbie Yong reports SUN-KISSED SOJOURN Diners feast by the Noosa River in the Riverside Marquee.

A WOMAN who has admitted to setting her unit complex on fire after a neighbour "annoyed" her wants to be released from custody and to move back into the same accommodation.

"I support the right of same-sex couples to have their loving and committed relationships recognised in state-sanctioned marriage," said Mr Roy, who at 23 is the youngest MP in Federal Parliament.

QUEENSLAND, Australia May 2013 - It is a commonly held truth in western society that weddings are a glorious occasion where the bride glitters and shines - it is her special day and all eyes are on her.

UBS expects Australian coal exports to drop around 5 per cent to around 162 million tonnes, after increasing 31 per cent to 171 million tonnes last year Australia relies heavily on China as a market for its coal.

"This sort of tunnelling is not rocket science. It's doable and something that ought to be factored into the planning associated with key infrastructure for the Great Dividing Range." Former deputy Prime Minster, Tim Fisher, says the light at the end of the tunnel for transport woes on the Great Dividing Range is a tunnel.

The seven men are believed to have scaled a perimeter fence of the Scherger detention centre, 30km east of Weipa, about 5.40am. The detainees fled the facility, which lies 30km east of Weipa, at 5.40am on Thursday, with at least six boarding a plane to Cairns where they were later intercepted by local and federal police.

Paul Hogan's got nothing on Ashley Sala mate. Paul Hogan never slept with a saltie, Ashley has, and I witnessed it.

A "SUPER-SIZE" catchment combining Brisbane State High School and Coorparoo Secondary College has almost 9000 children, making future amalgamation unsustainable, the State Opposition says.

A 40-year-old man has been sentenced to a year in prison for fraudulently claiming money from the Queensland Flood Appeal.

THINK OF THE CHILDREN: Queensland Opposition Leader Annastacia Palaszczuk with sister Julia Tremble and baby Evelyn Rose Tremble.

PETER Slipper will still be fighting accusations he misused taxpayer-funded taxi vouchers to tour Canberra wineries after the September election.

A self-proclaimed "big kid", Greg Inglis has matured into a young man aware of the influence he has on-and-off the field says friend and former Cowboys' star Ty Williams.

A Queensland turtle rehabilitation centre is calling on the Federal Government for funding as the "sentinels of the sea" continue to struggle post-Cyclone Yasi.

Finally you can shoot true digital cinema with a camera that won't blow the budget.

Marine researchers at Queensland's Sunshine Coast in Australia are using satellite trackers for the first time to monitor two sea turtles that have been returned to the ocean today, reported ABC News.

Wallabies winger Digby Ioane is in doubt for the start of the British and Irish Lions Test series after undergoing a knee operation this morning.